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Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh Patrick Blair, Surgeon This article was downloaded by: [ECU Libraries] On: 22 April 2015, At: 06:44 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tped18 Patrick Blair, Surgeon Apothecary, Dundee Mr. Alexander P. Stevenson Published online: 29 Nov 2010. To cite this article: Mr. Alexander P. Stevenson (1908) Patrick Blair, Surgeon Apothecary, Dundee, Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 23:1-4, 259-276, DOI: 10.1080/03746600809469163 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03746600809469163 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. 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When, on Friday, 25th January 1884, Professor Struthers, in the show-yard in East Dock Street, dissected the famous Tay whale, whose articulated skeleton now figures in the City Museum, I suspect very few knew or remembered that nearly two hundred years before another equally monstrous mammal underwent the same treatment, and its skeleton and counterfeit presentment figured in a Dundee " Hall of Rarities " of that period. I don't know that the pomp and ceremony of the one dissection could be compared with the other, for in the former ease there had been some attempt made to make the dissection possible and so far easy, and, in the words of the veracious reporter of the Dundee Advertiser, " the band of the 1st Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers discoursed during the day airs of a lively and popular character, which undoubtedly rendered the proceed- ings less solemn than they might have been, and may have helped, as was remarked, ' to keep down the smell.'" In the other case, where the Dundee doctor and naturalist of whom I wish to tell you first comes to view, there was no arrange- ment of any kind ; it was merely a fortunate accident, and his ready action and skilful hands and eyes, which made the dissection possible, and so it happened that " the first elephant dissected in Great Britain " was this Dundee specimen. The story, I think, will prove interesting ; many details Downloaded by [ECU Libraries] at 06:44 22 April 2015 are given in the communication made to the Royal Society of London by the anatomist " Mr. Patrick Blair, Surgeon Apothecary, Dundee, Scotland." Robert Chambers, in his " Domestic Annals of Scotland," gives 1680 as the year when the first elephant was seen in Scotland, and quotes from a contemporary writer a very quaint description of the " great beast " which was shown through the country, and which formed the subject of some litigation, those who farmed it out refusing to pay the fee of £400, " as it did not fulfil all the owners promised it would do," to which they pleaded that it "could not drink every time it was shewn." 260 PATRICK BLAIR, SURGEON APOTHECARY. [SEs. ram. The elephant with which Dr. Blair had to do, had been exhibited over a large part of Europe, and ultimately found its way to these northern regions, and Dr. Blair in his paper heads a paragraph " How THE ELEPHANT FELL IN OUR WAY." After some stay in Edinburgh, her keepers conducted her to the North, and on their return came along the sea-coast, but there being but few places on the road for making advantage, by long and hurried marches they came towards Dundee, and when they were within a mile of this place the poor animal, much fatigued and wearied, fell down. All their endeavours to get her on foot again proved ineflectual. What followed smacks of the wise men of Gotham. " They digg'd a deep Ditch, to whose Side she might lean till she were sufficiently rested ; but that prov'd her Ruin ; for shortly afterwards there fell great Rains, which filled the Ditch with Water. So that, after lying in the puddle a whole Day, she died next Morning, being Saturday, April 27th, 1706." When the keepers saw that she was dead, they came to the magistrates of the burgh, and having made oath that they had done her no designed injury, they got a certified attestation to that effect. The magistrate, Captain George Yeaman, then Bailie, after- wards Provost, and ultimately Member for Dundee in the United Parliament in London, was made a present of the " Cadaver" or carcase. Captain Yeaman went to see the dead animal, taking Dr. Blair with him " in order to have the Skin flea'd off, which," says the Doctor, " was his chief design, and the Body opened, which was mine. As I was very glad of the Opportunity, so was I concern'd because of the Downloaded by [ECU Libraries] at 06:44 22 April 2015 disadvantage I was at, which kept me from prosecuting what I design'd : For there went out a great Multitude, the Day was very hot, and being the last Day of the Week the Subject could admit of no delay, especially since it lay in the high Way and open Fields ; so that I scarce had any convenience to pry into, or see anything of moment, much less to enquire nicely into the Structure of Parts, as the Subject required." And then the unwieldy hands of the " unruly Butchers " were making sad havoc in their progress of opening the animal, and, " whether I would or not, they did so slash the Sternum and mangle seVeratof the Cartilages, as to render them useless, cutting and tearing wheresoever APRIL 19071 PATRICK BLAIR, SURGEON APOTHECARY. 261 their clumsy hands came." Left to himself, he had not much above an hour to dissect the subject when light failed, and all the time he had to work as best he could " amidst a Throng and Rabble," and " in mighty hot weather." Night fell and Sunday intervened, wherein no anatomist might work, at least in the open, and on Monday the " mighty hot weather " had made itself apparent on the cadaver, and some of the parts had been carried away by the country people ; however, thanks to the pains and care of Provost Yeaman, these parts were afterwards recovered, and ultimately Dr. Blair managed to elaborate, from the material he secured, an exhaus- tive paper, which, entitled " Osteographia Elephantina," with four large copperplates, filled over a hundred pages of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for 1710. The article was published in a separate form in 1713, largely due to the fact that papers on the minute anatomy of the hair and skin of the same elephant were being read to the Society by Leenwenhoek, the famous optician and microscopist. These sections had been secured by him when the animal was being exhibited in Holland: Dr. Blair, then M.D. and F.R.S., dedicates the book to Dr. John Arbuthnot. His plates, he says, " might have been finer done in London ; but since I had the Original by me, whereby I was able from time to time to correct in the Engraving what Errors happened in drawing the Figures, I rather chose to have them done in Dundee." The four plates bear that they are done at the expense of Patrick Blair, and that the engraver was Gilb. Oram, Taodunensis. Before leaving this part of the subject, it may be sufficient to say that Dr. T. Thomson, in his history of the Downloaded by [ECU Libraries] at 06:44 22 April 2015 Royal Society, speaks of Blair's paper as " a most surprising one. If we consider that all his observations were made from one animal, we must admit his exertions must have been uncommon and his address great to have made his account so minute as it is," while the author of a paper on the elephant in the " Transactions " in the early years of the nineteenth century mentions Blair's account as " wonderfully accurate." 1 1 I have lately learned that Professor Boas, Copenhagen, who is at work on a monograph on the anatomy of the elephant, thinks very highly of Blair's work, and has pointed out that certain points of anatomical structure were more correctly stated in his paper than by any observer who has written since. 262 PATRICK BLAIR, SURGEON APOTHECARY.
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